The only reason you need to not live in a mobile home

We live in a mobile home.

We has about 2 weeks notice before we had to leave for Nebraska, and when we got here- we had no where to live. We spent an entire day driving around (with a very cranky baby) the city, looking at places, calling numbers, and checking Craigslist every 5 minutes.

Finally, a mobile home park came up- with NEW mobile homes that look nice, 3 br/2 bath, a semi-yard, in our price range and allowed dogs.

It was a no-brainer. 

We haven't had too many problems, and have discovered that the location is actually perfect.

But now here is the catch: your neighbors.

Which yes, are and can be a problem no matter where you live.

But for some off reason, people in mo Ike home parks like to "renovate" their mobile home. 

Like our neighbors next door.

Granted, their place was a dump and looked horrible- and they just moved in. But still- when there is a giant hole in our home a few feet wide, concerns come up.

But not to these folks. Last week they patched up that distasteful hole.

Joe and my question to ourselves, "did they make sure all the animals were out of it first?"

Later that day as we were headed out, I saw two birds that kept trying to get into the hole. After about 10 minutes they gave up and flew away.

I just hope they were starting to build a neat and not on their way home to feed their kids.

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A little story

So, as I mentioned in this post, last week I taught little kids about being kind to animals in church.
I have been teaching for about 3-4 weeks, and normally I run out of time. Because, they are 3-4 year olds, so they have a short attention span. Very short. And really don't know/answer any of my questions.
So, this week I planed 2 coloring activities (lucky kids). I gave each child a piece of paper and told them to draw their favorite animal. But, they couldn't draw any animals, so, I spent 10 minutes running around the classroom drawing various animals for the kids.
Most of them were easy, a few were fascinated with my fish drawing (you know, the ones you did in like 1st grade). Some were more complicated- a dog, lion, etc. But the hardest one was a little girl who asked me to draw a swan.
A swan?!?!
Other then V's, I am not good at birds. I don't even like birds. They wake me up in the morning. Other then eating and chasing, what good are BIRDS?
So, I did my best to draw her a swan.
She looks at it, then says in a very sad and disappointed voice, "I guess it will just have to be a flamingo".

Well then, I guess a flamingo is just gonna have to be good enough.

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Movie Monday!

So, like I have mentioned before- Joe and I teach the 3-4 year olds at church.
This last week the lesson was on "Being kind to animals".
Joe was out of town, so I had the little munchkins all to myself.
And it actually went pretty well!
Or so I thought.
Until Joe got home that night and I told him what happened and realized how I basically CRUSHED six kids dreams.

Here is what happened:
In the lesson, I was supposed to tell the kids about Noah's Ark.
Well, I am Irish. And we listen to Irish music a lot. Like the Rovers. So I grew up listening to the song below. And to this day, I cannot think of Noah's Ark without thinking of this song.
So, while telling the kids about Noah's ark- I thought it would be nice to tell them what happened to Unicorns.
In my mind, they would know that Unicorns are fake- but like to believe they are real. It never occurred to me that they might actually BELIEVE they exist.

So, I told them how the Unicorns all got washed away, and that there are NO MORE unicorns today. Then I watched as they all gasped in shocked, trying to comprehend as their dreams are washed away. I smiled in triumph- thinking I had fooled them.

Oh, the fool I am.
I told Joe what happened.
And soon saw the error of my ways.
Poor little kids.
Poor little girl who put her hands to her face and kept asking, "Wait- what happened?"

So, enjoy.

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